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(Virginia Tech, 2003-05-13)Selective dissolution also known as dealloying is a corrosion process in which one component of a binary alloy system is selectively removed through an electrochemically controlled process which leads to the formation of ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-09-05)The unequal treatment of racial minorities by police is by no means a new concept. The debate over racial profiling centers on two questions. Does racial profiling actually occur? If so, is racial profiling being used ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-07-08)The modern era of globalization presents a situation where indigenous cultures are potentially being eroded away. As a result, leaders of these groups need to begin using effective rhetorical strategies in their efforts ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-05-30)Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the art of ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-05)Children's relationships with their childcare teachers and its effects on their subsequent behaviors, attachments, and outcomes have been an interest in the last two or three decades primarily due to the significant increase ...
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(Virginia Tech, 1998-04-06)Drosophila nonclaret disjunctional (Ncd) is a kinesin-like C-terminal motor protein that is involved in spindle assembly in oocytes during meiosis and in spindle maintenance in early embryos during mitosis. Ncd interacts ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-30)In this dissertation, I deconstruct the commonly held assumption that the intrauterine device (IUD) is an unsafe and/or obsolete contraceptive method that has been used mostly to impose population control on women in ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-09-14)Networks, generically, refer to any application of graph theory in economics. Consider an undirected graph where nodes represent players and links represent relationships between them. Players can both form and delete links ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2000-05-12)The serine/cysteine protease inhibitor phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) has been used both to promote and to protect against neuropathic events of organophosphorus-induced delayed neuropathy (OPIDN) in hens (Lotti et ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-03-27)This thesis proposes a control system to widen the bandwidth of piezoelectric transducers (PZTs) for vibration energy harvesting while extracting maximum power. A straightforward complex conjugate match achieves maximum ...
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(Virginia Tech, 1998-10-14)This dissertation describes the preparation and application of a novel class of hydroprocessing catalysts, transition metal phosphides. Concentration was placed on molybdenum and tungsten monophosphides because of the ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-06-17)The New River crosses the core of the ancient, tectonically quiescent Appalachian orogen as it follows its course through North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. It is ideally situated to record the changes in geomorphic ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2001-06-21)In contemporary downtown historic area renovation, conflicts between the new building and the environment always exist. To better solve the problem, a concept of Scene Container was introduced into the New Craig County ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-01-25)Recently, experimental observations have shown that radar echoes from the irregularity<br />source region associated with mesospheric dusty space plasmas may be modulated by radio wave heating with ground-based ionospheric ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-12-04)In this paper, we present techniques for proving a group to be non-left-orderable or a unique product group. These methods involve the existence of a mapping from the group to R which obeys a left-multiplication criterion. ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-02-28)Disagreement on what kind of philosopher Nietzsche was (e.g., the first postmodern or a traditional) stems, in part, from what weight his unpublished writings are given in various interpretations of his philosophy. I argue ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-02-10)Decent housing available to the working class in America is in very short supply. Manufactured housing could help to meet this basic need. But community groups and politicians often reject manufactured housing because they ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-03-07)Atmospheric deposition of reactive nitrogen (N) from anthropogenic sources to forested systems may have acute and long-term deleterious impacts on tree species and water quality. Understanding how nitrate (NO3-) moves ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-03-20)Managing nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in agricultural systems in the Mid-Atlantic is an important practice due to environmental and economic concerns. The objectives of the experiments reported in this dissertation were: ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-09-06)This dissertation is a study of the relationships between nitrogen (N) availability and spiraling (the paired processes of nutrient cycling and advective transport) in stream ecosystems. Anthropogenic activities have ...
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